Jim Birkemeier, owner of sustainable forestry operation Spring Green Timber Growers in Spring Green, Wis., was recently featured by a local news station.
Jim Birkemeier, owner of sustainable forestry operation Spring Green Timber Growers in Spring Green, Wis., was recently featured by a local news station.
The segment, available on YouTube, features Birkemeier talking about how he salvages dead and dying trees, dries the wood via a solar kiln and mills wood products, including flooring, on the premises.
“[M]ost wood was … processed on the other side of the world, and it’s a bad thing for the people, planet and economy,” said Birkemeier on Talk of the Town. “If we support local business and use the wood that’s right here instead of throwing it away, it would probably be the biggest economic boom we could have for Wisconsin.”
Birkemeier said in an email the segment producer is interested in recording another show on the company’s property.